Robert A. Heinlein Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom. Stranger in a Strange Land

2. But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil. Stranger in a Strange Land

3. Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.

4. Fiz uma descoberta muito importante no Acampamento Currie: a felicidade consiste em dormir o suficiente. Só isso, mais nada. Todas as pessoas ricas e infelizes que você já conheceu tomam remédio pra dormir; soldados da Infantaria Móvel não precisam disso. Dê um beliche a um soldado e tempo pra se enfiar nele, e ele vai ficar tão feliz quanto um bichinho dentro de uma maçã... dormindo. Starship Troopers

5. Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Stranger in a Strange Land

6. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Stranger in a Strange Land

7. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Stranger in a Strange Land

8. May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

9. Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none. Have Space Suit—Will Travel

10. Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

11. Women talk when they want to. Or don't. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

12. Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

13. Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal - else a balancing takes place as surely as current flows between points of unequal potential. To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy. The unlimited democracies were unstable because their citizens were not responsible for the fashion in which they exerted their sovereign authority... other than through the tragic logic of history... No attempt was made to determine whether a voter was socially responsible to the extent of his literally unlimited authority. If he voted the impossible, the disastrous possible happened instead - and responsibility was then forced on him willy-nilly and destroyed both him and his foundationless temple. Starship Troopers

14. If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it. Stranger in a Strange Land

15. Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none. Have Space Suit—Will Travel

16. Liebe ist der Zustand, in dem das Glück einer anderen Person für dich wichtig ist. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.